Everybody’s Libyan

I mean, leaving.

It is at this point of time when I remember what Meiyi said about everybody leaving for university at the various countries in the world, caught up with school work and having activity commitments with new groups of people. It feels sort of surreal, recalling all the times we did all the things together – chilling at the piano, playing board games, LANning, mahjong, even mugging – then moving on to meeting every few weekends to take a break from the military and catching up with each other, and even now, still meeting up once in a while to do stuff. And then, for the next few years, we’ll be attending our respective universities, living out the school life that may or may not prepare us for the next stage of our lives as part of the working adults. And then we graduate and start working.

It makes me feel melancholic, just thinking about all these. Where has all the time gone?

(related video)

Time is marching on… and time… is still marching on… DUN DUN.

I know we should always be moving on to face the future, but I really hope we will still be able to meet up in the further future.

(Facebook doesn’t count.)

Another related video (I think):

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Okay, back to calculus. Oh wait, it’s 4am.
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nope. back to calculus.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

CS1101S Rages

This is the 2nd week since tutorials started.

August 20 (Sat)
2.20pm: Figuring out Order of Growth
11.30pm: Realizing that CS1101S DG is on Monday and not on Wednesday (Recitations).

August 23
1.20pm: Clueless about lambda.
4pm: Coding in MA1521 Lecture

August 26
3.50am: Sudden realization that Mission 4 is due on Saturday 2359h (27th) and not Sunday 2359h (28th).
4.20am: Also, not sure about the difference between unit-circle and alternative-unit-circle.
4pm: Coding in MA1521 Lecture again, instead of listening to lecture.  Finally able to complete Lecture 5 Path.

August 28
7.50pm: Trying to figure out how to merge curves into a single curve in Side Quest 4. 1
9.20pm: Realizing that Ctrl+I should be used in DrRacket and not in the JFDI code window.
11pm: Sudden realization about parametrics.
11.45pm: Submission of SideQuest 4.1 just before deadline.

August 29
3.55am: Can’t remember how rcomp works.
1pm: Submission of Mission 5
2pm: Submission of Sidequest 5
6.10pm: Pon GEK1505 lecture to do coding.
9.35pm: Thankful for deadline extensions. Submission of Mission 6.

August 30
12.25am: Full marks for 2 side quests and 2 missions in a row? Deadline extensions? I know everyone else has been keeping a perfect streak since Mission 1 but for me… :everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg;
2.35am: Changing drRacket settings – open new racket files in new tab instead of new window. -_-
3.55am: Still here at UTown coding Mission 7. Task 3 Done!

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I’m really neglecting all my other subjects, am I not? This thing is addictive.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

Blog Revival

Revival Post なう (Also, finally a blog post posted under the ‘School Life’ category woo~)

So, after 9 months of whiling my time away as a NEET, I’m officially back in school where I can learn to become less of a burden to society.

Modules that I’m taking this semester:
1. CS1101S
2. CS1231
3. MA1521
4. GEK1505
5. LAJ2202

At the same time, as a resident of Raffles Hall, I’m planning to embark on
1. RHMP Technical Crew
2. Board of Photographers
3. ComMotion
4. Softball
assuming that I get accepted into these activities.

Simultaneously, I have registered as an official member of the Japanese Studies Society, as well as indicated an interest in joining the NUS Contract Bridge Club.

Tutorials haven’t even started, not to mention hall activities, and somehow, I’m already foaming really badly. Yet, I chose to torture myself with my module choices – that of choosing to take on Scheme as a non-programmer, as well as Japanese 3 taught by a certain notorious Chiba-sensei. And due to my masochistic love for Mathematics, I’m taking Discrete Structures [To F1 or not to not F1... what is the question??], as well as Calculus (for Computing) [actually, they were pre-allocated, but that's besides the point].

Year 1 Semester 1 Timetable - I can go kill myself already. (Also, tool for potential stalkers.)

(Oh, I don’t think I mentioned that I’m also taking Japanese classes at Ikoma at the same time.)

So now that I’m done with officially reviving this blog, I can now proceed with posting trivial school-related rages on this blog.

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I still have not figured out how to manage my non-lecture/tutorial time. Woe.
Well, I see that my very first tutorials as an NUS student will be GEK1505 and CS1101S so I guess I should clear these first?

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Meanwhile, I’ll leave all [redacted]-related stuff to my livejournal, as always.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

About GEP entrance

Today, in ST Life pg E8:
Letter from Ng Ah Cheng –

I sent my elder girl to Bukit Timah Primary School. [...] she was selected for the GEP along with 13 of her schoolmates.

Seriously, what’s with Bukit Timah Primary School (formerly known as Bukit Batok) and GEP? My batch from BBPS had 10 going to into GEP.

President Mubarak steps down

2011/02/11 1603GMT – Egypt VP Suleiman announces President Mubarak stepping down after 30 years of presidency.

I’ve been watching the livestream on Al-Jazeera for the past 2 hours, it’s 2am, and I can’t bring myself away from witnessing every minute following this really historic moment.

It’s really heartwarming to hear the emotions of the Egyptian Al-Jazeera reporters when the anchorman from the studio asks them to remove his reporter’s hat and not be impartial for a moment and tell the viewers how he is feeling.

“It’s not sunk in yet.
I’m shocked that it actually happened so quickly.
It used to really upset me that it reached a point that 85 million people only have 1 choice of a leadership.
[...]
I couldn’t believe that the government unravelled all its darkest secrets in 48 hours.
Cairo become an unrecognizable city.”

“Okay, now you may put on that reporter’s hat again as we proceed on with the coverage of the Egypt Revolution.”

Hey Egypt, this is your chance to get the future you want for yourselves and your country. Please do not screw this up, and I wish you a smooth, safe and peaceful transition to your next government.

Twitter tag #jan25 never forget.

Leaving on a jet plane

…but will be back on the 2nd.

See you guys in 17 days.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

The obligatory ORD LOH post

ORD LOH. FREEDOM BECKONS IS FINALLY HERE.

pre-NaNoWriMo 2010

As November looms, I ask myself a question that I have been posing to myself for the past few years: Do I really want to try NaNoWriMo, again? 3 failed attempts since 2005. w00t.

photo identification verification

Okay so, Facebook thought that perhaps, my account had become a victim of phishing. So, in order to verify my identity, I had a choice between
1. answering my secret question, and
2. identifying 5 friends from photos they are tagged in.

I wished I had taken a screenshot.

So how this works is, they will present you with 5 sets of 2 photos. In each photo, a square tag is marked out, and you are supposed to choose from 5 options who is the one that has been tagged in both photos.

You’re given 2 chances to skip (but still have to meet the 5 set requirement) in case you forget who that friend is (or if you added this person just to help you in Farmville).

Or, in case your friend has been tagged as somebody’s left breast as well as the top left corner of a French roadside restaurant sign in both photos. (Or perhaps, tagged as “The Crazy One” in one of those photo-tag memes. in other words, this friend does not appear in the photo.) lolwut.

Answer any set wrongly, and they’ll lock you out of your account. Or something.

Okay so,
I THINK THIS SHOULD BE MADE INTO A FB GAME.

Useless information – who FB asked me to identify:
Set #1: see above
Set #2: Ng Qihua
Set #3: Tan Zi Hao
Set #4: Eugene Seow
Set #4: Feng Yi Fei
Set #5: Vanessa Koh

and they used rather old photos where they were much younger and thus look a little different, at that.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

A P3 student’s essay

Only 5 sentences, and no “fluffy white clouds floating peacefully in the azure sky”.

That man is very tall.

I look at that tall man.

We are both intelligent people.

We are also father and son.

We love each other very much.

…also, check out Alfian Sa’at’s FB note on Some Useful Tips For Writing Your Secondary One Composition.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.